[1] Allin returned to his home area of New England sometime in late 1987 or early 1988, settling somewhere in New Hampshire only because, according to his self-penned liner notes for the album, "it's cheap".

Another former member of Psycho, Bill Normal, also became involved with the album, pinch-hitting for Lynch on four of the tracks and playing some deliberately atonal synthesizer on the cut "Crash and Burn".

For some unknown reason, however, Bulge, along with sometime Allin friend and collaborator Mark Sheehan (best known for working with Allin on The Suicide Sessions, The Troubled Troubadour, and the 1991 sessions that became bonus tracks on the CD version of You Give Love a Bad Name) would be credited with playing the instruments on the four tracks in question: "Wild Riding", "Family", "Young Little Meat", and "I Wanna Kill You".

Also for reasons unknown, Normal's contributions as bassist were not listed on the album, while his keyboard work on "Crash and Burn" was credited to him under the pseudonym "Dork".

Allin was starting to get into poetry and spoken word performances – albeit in his own style – and decided to frame the opening and closing of the album with two pieces.